—Could you give me some coins,Dad?I want to buy an ice cream.

—Sorry,I’ve got        on me.

A.none                         B.nothing                            C.quite a few                D.no one

The road is covered with snow.I Can’t understand _______ they insist on going by motorbike.?

A. why B. whether?C. when D. how?

As there was not much chance to find good jobs in their hometown, many young men now tried to _______ their fortune in cities.?

A. find    B. find out?

C. seek   D. look at?

—Lucy,my good friend died in an accident yesterday.?

—___________.?

A.That’s all right           B.Oh,well,that’s life?

C.You’re lucky             D.Don’t worry?

—Excuse me,do you have the time??

—Sorry,I have no watch.?

—___________?

A.What a shame.           B.Thanks anyway.?

C.It doesn’t matter.        D.Why not buy one??

The train leaves at 8:00 a.m. ,so I have to be at the station _______ 7:30 a.m at least.?

A. until              B. after     C. by      D. around?

You look tired out. I guess you _______ well during the long journey.?

A. can't have slept  B. didn't sleep

C. haven't slept       D. will not sleep

What made Joan Ryan decide to be a sports writer?“Ten years ago, I was ?　36　? news stories at the Orlando Sentinel in Florida—my first job ?　37　? college. I didn't know any female sports writers. But I wanted to be ?　38　?.?　39　?,the best writing in the paper was sports.”

“Furthermore, I had the ?　40　?.I grew up in a(n) ?　41　? family: Three boys and three girls and a coach for a dad.”?

Soon after describing her ambition to a coworker, the ?　42　? of her paper reassigned Joan to the sports ?　43　?.She started out by editing other people's stories,?　44　? within a year, she was writing her own sports column.?

Today, Joan is the sports ?　45　? for the San Francisco Examiner in California. When she ?　46　? her job eight years ago, she was the ?　47　? woman sports writer on any major American newspaper.

Was it tough to ?　48　? as a female sports writer??　49　?!Take, for example, the first time Joan tried to get an interview in the men's locker room. “It was the U.S. Football League. I wanted to interview one of the players—Joe Cribbs, because he had just broken a finger. As soon as I ?　50　? into the locker room ?　51　? all sports writers interview athletes—the room went ?　52　?.Guys started yelling at me—closing in on me. It was really frightening. One guy was sitting on a bench in front of me, tapping up his ankle,?　53　? a long-handled razor for cutting the tape. Suddenly, I felt something move up my leg. It was the ?　54　? of the razor. I yelled at him and walked out.”

Joan ?　55　? interviewing Cribbs—outside the locker room.“In retrospect(回憶),I feel this was a defining moment for me as a journalist. I went back and wrote my story and made my deadline. Now I know that nothing can interfere with getting the story.”?

36. A. writing B. finding       C. editing       D. sending?

37. A. in B. out of C. into    D. before?

38. A. one      B. the one       C. it D. that?

39. A. However     B. Therefore   C. Above all   D. First of all?

40. A. knowledge   B. experience  C. Background       D. interest?

41. A. big       B. athletic       C. athrete       D. warm?

42. A. editor   B. Manager     C. Director     D. workmate?

43. A. column B. field   C. department D. paper?

44. A. and      B. So      C. however     D. but?

45. A. columnist    B. writer C. journalist    D. female?

46. A. did       B. left     C. landed D. wanted?

47. A. abed     B. only    C. brave  D. wisest?

48. A. work    B. writer C. interview    D. pioneer?

49. A. You bet       B. You believe       C. Unbelievable     D. You guess?

50. A. stepped B. entered       C. rushed D. moved?

51. A. that      B. which C. where D. when?

52. A. warm   B. crazy  C. down  D. full?

53. A. held     B. playing      C. used    D. using?

54. A. cap      B. cover  C. handle D. movement?

55. A. started  B. ended up C. Made     D. wrote??

The high noise of modern life may affect speech and language development in the very young, according to a study that found the auditory (聽覺的) parts of the brains of young mice are slower to organize properly in the presence of continuous sounds.

Researchers at the University of California, San Francisco, reared a group of rats in an environment of continuous background noise and found that their brain circuits that receive and interpret (解釋) sound did not develop at the same rate as animals that were raised in a quieter environment.?

Edward F. Chang and Michael Merzenich, co-authors of the study appearing in the journal Science, said that the continuous noise delayed the organization of auditory neurons (神經(jīng)細胞) during a critical two-to-three-week period after the rat pups were born.?

For rats not exposed to the noise, the auditory cortex(皮層) neurons during this period gathered into a smaller area and began developing a selective response to sounds.?

But for the noise?exposed rats, this organization was slowed, causing a delay in the development of the ability to discriminate(辨別) specific sound tones. The researchers said it took three or four times longer for the rats raised in a noisy environment to reach the basic bench marks (基準) of auditory development seen in the rat pups not exposed to noises.?

Although the rat is not a perfect model for what happens in humans, the authors note, the study does suggest that high levels of noise might possibly affect some language learning in babies.?

“These findings suggest that environmental noise, which is commonly present in contemporary child-rearing environments, can potentially contribute to auditory and language-related development delays,”the authors wrote in Science.?

The authors noted that although the brain development was delayed in rats exposed to the noise, their brains did eventually mature (成熟的) normally.?

The scientists at California University studied rats_______.?

A. of different age groups     B. with different habits?

C. in different environments  D. from different areas?

The rats exposed to noise, compared to those not exposed, _______.?

A. were more sensitive   B. were duller?

C. grew up more slowly D. gathered together more quickly

The result of the research mainly tells us that noise _______.

A. delays brain development  B. stops baby growth

C. affects speech and language      D. destroys brains?

The findings of the research are said to have special connections with _______.

A. causes of noises B. medical science?

C. other living things     D. human babies??

短文改錯（共10小題；每小題1分，滿分?10分?)?

此題要求改正所給短文中的錯誤。對標有題號的每一行作出判斷:如無錯誤,在該行右邊橫線上畫一個勾（√）；如有錯誤（每行只有一個錯誤）,則按下列情況改正:?

此行多一個詞:把多余的詞用斜線（\\）劃掉,在該行右邊橫線上寫出該詞,并也用斜線劃掉。

此行缺一個詞:在缺詞處加一個漏字符號（∧）,在該行右邊橫線上寫出該加的詞。?

此行錯一個詞:在錯的詞下畫一橫線,在該行右邊橫線上寫出改正后的詞。?

注意:原行沒有錯的不要改。

The flu shot is very safe, and most people have    76_______.?

 no problems with it. Before the flu shot, some people  77_______.

 might feel comfortable or get a small fever, but　     78_______.

that's nothing like the flu that can make you sick in     79_______.

a or two weeks                                 .80_______.

　　Either you get the flu shot or not, you can do　    81_______.?

something important keep yourself from getting        82_______.

the flu and the other winter illnesses. Get a good habit of 83_______.?

washing your hands. When you are, you wash away    84_______.

the viruses they will make you sick!                 85_______.